Finally, massive fossil fuel infrastructure investments like KXL undermine efforts to minimize global warming and prioritize clean energy like wind and solar. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Shutdown Highlights Bidens Tightrope Gulf Coast refiners traditional sources of heavy crudes, particularly Mexico and Venezuela, are declining and are expected to continue to decline. According to the U.S. State Department in 2014, Americas energy system had a need for more heavy crude from Canada to replace declining volumes from Mexico and - you guessed it - Venezuela. The Keystone XL pipeline is an international project years in the making. The pipeline was set to At the same time that President Biden has made shale oil and gas drilling and the movement of products produced by such drilling more and more difficult in the United States, he has asked OPEC to drill for more oil internationally. WebJoe Biden just cancelled it. If the president gets his wish, the FAA's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center will train another 1,800 next year. The takedown of the notorious Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline will go down as one of this generations most monumental environmental victories. Noting that the pipeline, which was built in 1953, traverses the Straits of Mackinac which separate the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan and are where Lake Huron connects with Lake Michigan, Governor Whitmer declared that the pipeline was too environmentally dangerous to be allowed to continue to function, that Enbridge had violated a 1953 easement entered into between Michigan and Canada, and that Enbridge needed to stop using the pipeline. And is it Joe Bidens fault? We reached out to the White House for a comment, but we havent heard back. At that point I don't think the Saudis wrote involved. Tar sands oil is thicker, more acidic, and more corrosive than lighter conventional crude, and this ups the likelihood that a pipeline carrying it will leak. Environmentalists and Native American groups had fought against the project for more than a decade. The Biden Administration has announced that it is not, for now, supporting the closure of the Line 5 pipeline, which carries Canadian oil and gas across the border into The White House on Tuesday clarified that the Biden administration is not considering a shutdown of the Line 5 pipeline in Michigan despite a push from the state to do so. In sum, despite the fact that project leaders anticipated filling 11,000 positions in 2021, there was no evidence to definitively prove that, or that positions (either permanent or temporary construction jobs or indirect employment opportunities) were lost as a result of Biden's order in addition to the more than 1,000 jobs the Keystone XL and LIUNA presidents said were eliminated. VideoThe secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure, LGBT troops take love for Eurovision to front line. NRDC advocates were part of a broad coalition that helped stop Keystone XLfor good. President-elect Joe Biden formally announced on Wednesday he was revoking a key permit for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the second time a Democratic Read about our approach to external linking. Meanwhile, TC Energy released a statement on Jan. 20 condemning the decision to halt construction with the below-displayed headline and subhead. "Prices are higher because production has lagged behind, not because there isn't enough pipeline capacity there is.". In 2014, more than two million comments urging a rejection of the pipeline were submitted to the U.S. Department of State during a 30-day public comment period. Web@tye1138 @dragoness58 @ChuckCallesto Because it was Trump opened up the pipeline Biden shut it down. But his Biden administration has also backed large-scale fossil fuel projects including the Mountain Valley pipeline in the eastern US, and the $8bn Willow project in Alaska. NRDC and its partners also found the majority of Keystone XL oil would have been sent to markets overseasaided by a 2015 reversal of a ban on crude oil exports.